«Apollo»

At 16,914 gross tons, «Apollo» is the 29,178th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 2.8 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 2,402 tankers held here, it ranks 829th by tonnage — larger than 63% of that group. Their median tonnage is 8,256 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 42,340 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (219 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 175 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which «Apollo» is the 4,977th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 219 tankers flying the Panama flag, of which 82 are larger by tonnage.

«Apollo» was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 623rd largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 120 vessels to 3. Maj, with a median tonnage of 18,602 GT, delivered between 1900 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 167.7 m overall, «Apollo» is 28.7 m longer than the 139.0 m median for tankers on record and a draft of 9.2 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9234628 this registry holds 71 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 2000 to 2004. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.

Its IMO number, 9234628, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 3×5 + 4×4 + 6×3 + 2×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.